Contracts, Contracts. . . .

The business side of writing today, this time with the receipt of two contracts Monday, one by postal mail, one by email, from Smart Rhino Publications’s INSIDIOUS ASSASSINS for “Labyrinth” (see September 9) and Burial Day Books’s GOTHIC BLUE BOOK IV:  THE FOLKLORE EDITION for “School Nights” (September 8) respectively.  Both went back by postal mail,  for the “Labyrinth” this morning and “School Nights” (printed out at the public library since their printer is nicer than mine) this afternoon — the less glamorous part of the writing life.   GOTHIC BLUE BOOK, incidentally, is still on schedule for publication on Halloween.